Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, at Wright-Baker-Hill Funeral Home, Brookfield. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the funeral home with the family receiving friends from 5-8 that evening. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery, Brookfield.

Memorials to Petska Cancer Fund may be left at or mailed to the funeral home at P.O. Box 496, Brookfield, Mo. 64628.

Earlene Ellen was born July 26, 1941, in Bucklin, daughter of Oval and Susie (Carter) Schreckhise. On October 29, 1993, she married John Bendure.

Earlene had worked 33 years in the Layout Department of Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline.

Survivors include her husband, John Bendure, of the home; two sons, Gregory Lane Siemens, Macon, and Michael Ray Siemens, Bucklin; seven grandchildren and great-grandchildren; three sisters and a brother-in-law, Derotha J. and Alvin Standley, New Boston, Irveda Foreman, Sugar Grove, Ill., and Helen Masters, Kaneville, Ill.; step-children, Daren, James, Shauna and Leslie; several nieces and nephews; and other relatives.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and four brothers, Othal, Everett, Arnold and Alfie Schreckhise.